About Welsh Tapestry Blanket Carthen
The Welsh carthen is a reversible double-weave blanket tradition spanning three centuries of rural and industrial production across Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. Each blanket carries its pattern in structural inversion — cochineal red against ink black on one face, the exact negative on the other — a visual trick born from the mechanics of the double-weave loom.
This design system channels that structural duality into interface language: bold banded compositions, wool-saturated color, and the tactile grain of woven thread rendered on screen.
- Origin
- Wales — Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Conwy, Cardigan Bay
- Era
- 18th-century farmhouse production; 1850s industrial-mill peak; 1970s heritage revival; contemporary 2000–present
- Key figures
- Eifion Griffiths · Amanda Griffiths · Bonni Davies · J. Geraint Jenkins
- Movements
- Welsh woollen-mill industrial weaving · 1970s heritage-textile revival · Wool Week Wales contemporary craft
Welsh Tapestry Blanket Carthen design spec
Colors
Typography
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